Maintaining the foreign aid commitment was foolish, Theresa May needs to think more about life beyond the election

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I do not have too many doubts about the outcome of this General Election. However, looking to the longer term I fear that the Government's election campaign has started by offering too many hostages to fortune for the years to come.

The Prime Minister's bold initiative to gain a substantial majority that would strengthen her negotiating stand against Brussels and quell the constant campaign to negate the Referendum in the House of Lords certainly looks likely to succeed. That should quell the troubles in the Lords which have been generated largely from the vastly overpopulated Lib Dem benches and amongst the ranks of former EU commissioners financially dependent on their uncritical support...